tinnitus photography

 

 

 

I hope she comes back soon! Though, with some of the stuff she's been dealing with, I'd understand if she didn't.

i missed the reason she's taking a break (thought it was just to catch on living a normal life, though as a musician these days i'm not sure how you do that and still pay the bills).

chris brokaw rock band, mountain movers, major stars.

how was it?

i really want to see Mountain Movers... they have eluded me thus far in life. but i feel the tide changing.

Rick Nielsen couldn’t be a bigger nerd. He’s basically Pee Wee Herman with a five necked guitar.

yeah i can't make heads or tails out of that personnel move. i guess Mick and John still control the band. must have been over money but i can't imagine any of the members aren't absolutely rolling in it.

Cheap Trick. Great logo, great imagery. Pick the band member you identify with: the freak, the nerd, the hipster or the sex symbol.

which is the hipster and which is the sex symbol?

Marketing isn't just merch. To me, the best marketed bands are some of the boomer-classic rock acts who, after years and year of effort from their labels/PR/promoters/etc, get pushed into "legendary" status despite maybe only having one or two big albums like Fleetwood Mac. 

Fleetwood Mac is a weird example to draw... three (at least) distinct phases during their career, and one of the top selling records ever. 

for bands below at or below theater level, merch is their only way of marketing, really. you'll rarely hear them on radio or read about them in national print. i guess song placement works as marketing as well; Mogwai has had pretty good luck placing songs on tv shows and films.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1912841/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Metallica probably has the most shirts out there that I see people wearing

for an underground band, Sleep has the merch game dialed in to an outrageous degree.

White Stripes/Jack White

Van Halen

thx will check it out

anyone want to dole out a BC recommendation or two, either studio or something live via archive or dime?

you're my fact-checkin' cuz...

Dommengang - Love Jail

GBV - Pendulum

"Come on over tonight; we'll put on some Cat Butt and do it up right."

The Minutemen - "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"

 

also...

fIREHOSE - "For the Singer of REM"

fIREHOSE - "Song for Elizabeth Cotten"

but aside from the titles, those people are never mentioned in the song...

The Soft Boys - Mr Kennedy

"Coming into Cleveland

Riding in the van with Sebadoh"

^^^ Love that Minutemen song!  Good choice.

i have met more than a few musicians in my time, but i can't think of anyone more genuine than Mike Watt. 

Minutemen - Tour Spiel "i dreamed I was e bloom

but I woke up joe bouchard"

Minutemen - History Lesson pt 2

House of Love - "Beatles and the Stones" (also Mott The Hoople's "All The Young Dudes")

the best one, however no references to Dylan here. ("It's a new generation of electric white boy blues!")

Sebadoh - Gimme Indie Rock (Dinosaur Jr, VU, Stooges, Pussy Galore, Thurston Moore, Husker Du)
 

Throwing Muses

damn i forgot about this. TD isn't in the lineup is she?

☺Yeah don’t give up on them when the sound is on it’s

sad to say that Tame Impala lost me after _Lonerism_. i can't get w/ their new direction at all.

Those photos are excellent, as always. That pick manufacturer is a ballsy mofo. I'm certain they'll hear from you or your attorney.

i should have rattled their cage w/ an invoice but let them get off easy w/ a photo takedown (of course he had the balls to offer credit; photo credit don't pay my bills!)

Yeah - have always enjoyed seeing that Iommi pic.

apparently this custom guitar pick manufacturer thought so too and used it w/o a licence.

I didn't realize this band was still a thing.  I've been weeding out records lately and this one has been on the chopping block.  The only reason I keep it is because it was the answer to a "Win a Tama Drum Kit" trivia question* in Modern Drummer magazine when I was in high school, and my drum teacher (Tom Rafferty, RIP....link below to his band, the Starving Brain Eaters) told me the answer.  I didn't win the drums, but I guess keeping that memory alive is a pretty good reason to keep the record.  Then again, am I really going to forget if I let the record go?

 

(*Name the band that Carl Palmer played in before Emerson Lake and Palmer, whose only hit was "Fire.")

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYcj9xqE9gw

he played Psycho in 2016 and then did a short US tour the following year. He's still great, really energetic and quite a stage presence and production. 

bands i've seen in the last 72 hr (that i can remember off the top of my head)

Idle Hands, Howling Giant, Primitive Man, Danava, Lucifer, Corrosion of Conformity, Hangman's Chair, High On Fire, Electric Wizard, ASG, Graveyard, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Bad Religion, Candy, Electric Citizen, The Monophonics, Led Zeppelin II, LA Witch, Misfits, Black Mountain, Yob, Fu Manchu, Grails, The Obsessed, Clutch, Cold Cave, Soft Kill, Royal Thunder, Black Angels, Sumac, Glassjaw, Goatwhore, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mark Lanegan, Triumph Of Death (Hellhammer tribute feat. Tom Warrior).

thanks! yeah i was pretty fortunate for that shot. i've got a 2x3 foot print of it hanging over my sofa. 

a web site got in touch w/ me to do a short profile on my photography side, so i figured i would share.

https://artistwaves.com/tim-bugbee-behind-the-lens-of-three-favorite-photos-of-mine/